An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Singapore And The United States In 1965-1969

The relationship between Singapore and the U.S. in 1965-1969 formed in the complex and special international and regional situation. The formation and the development of the relationship experienced a course from aloof , approached to develop.In the course of the relationship between the two nations in 1965-1969, there were many-sided factors influenced the change of it. With regard to Singapore, it just independed and faced how to exist and develop in the turbulent and complex regional situation. Since the British would withdraw the military presence from the east of Suez, the shelter times of Singapore under the British was confronted with end. Singapore was eager to seek new safety protection;while in terms of the U.S., the military operations in Vietnam escalated continuously. The containment to the Communism has reached white-hot phrase. Singapore located not only on the verge of Cold War in the East Asia which was easy to be permeated from Communist, but also have very important strategic position to contain the Communist China and other socialist nations in the East Asia. Therefore it faced what course to follow at the beginning of independence. The U.S. has paid attentioned to this. In the course of the formation and development of the relationship, it were the change of Lee Kuan Yew's Amercian conception and Singapore's supporting the U.S. operations in Vietnam strongly that accelerated the approachment of the two nations. Meanwhile, the strategic benefit of the U.S. made it adopt active attitude toward Singapore. Singapore supported the U.S. under the principle of non-aligned and undependence on the U.S.: maintain the U.S. military presence and support the U.S. military operations actively. It made use of the buffer time in Vietnam War to gain the capitah technique and mitigative external environment for its modernization, which was beyond compare for other nations in the Southeast Asia. The U.S. has utilized Singapore's strategic superiority in military and commercial aspects. In this period, the relationship between the two nations trended toward a good interaction.The article take the National Interses Priciple and the International Balance Of Power as the main theoretical foundation. By inspecting Singapore National Achives and the appropriate foreign relations files of The United States, the article tries to investigate the formation and development of the relatioship between the two nations, analyse and conclude the trait and the influenc of the relationship and reveal the complete picture of the relationship in 1965-1969.